{"id":639,"date":"2008-12-18T02:06:55","date_gmt":"2008-12-18T01:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/?p=639"},"modified":"2008-12-18T02:06:55","modified_gmt":"2008-12-18T01:06:55","slug":"a-rant-about-companies-outreach-and-how-accessible-they-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/a-rant-about-companies-outreach-and-how-accessible-they-are\/","title":{"rendered":"A rant about companies outreach and how accessible they are"},"content":{"rendered":"

Studying branding and marketing of youth, you can see a few trends and patterns that everyone tries to exploit: personal image (e.g. clothes<\/strong>) and entertainment (e.g. movies, games and\u00a0 music).<\/strong><\/p>\n

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As such, music plays an important role in my everyday life, be it a car driving to work, listening to it while working and of course having the best running music. I know I should probably also sleep with some light music turned on, but for some reason that doesn’t do it for me.<\/p>\n

And there’s also greed<\/strong>. The idea to have as much of music as possible, even though it might humanly impossible to listen to all of it, let alone to actually appreciate it.<\/p>\n

Following this idea, Spotify seemed like a perfect online service<\/a>. Reasonably priced access to almost all the music one could want. I’ve evaluated this for a month now and finally decided to cancel it<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Here are some of my reasons behind it:<\/p>\n